Test 3 Flashcards
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Kufic
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- Rectangular script of the Koran
- Islam
- Arabic calligraphy
2
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Quibla Wall
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The southern wall of the great mosque that points in the direction towards mecca the Muslims faced while praying.
3
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Metal Work
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Yayoi period Japan development & skilled at bronze casting
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Silk Road
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Network of caravan routes across central asia linking china & the Mediterranean. Brought silks & other goods across the land
5
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Mihrab
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Semicircular niche usually set into the qibla wall that houses the Koran
6
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Minarets
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Towers used to call the faithful to worship.
7
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Yayoi
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Period following the Jomon period in Japan
- known for their metal work
- Invented bronze casting & loom weaving
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Jomon
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1st period of ancient Japan
- Known for their pottery; made before the pottery wheel was invented.
- Always in natural clay, pieces were never painted.
9
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Stupa
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- Buddhist architecture of India
- Structures that indicate the presence of Buddhism
- House of Worship for all
10
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Shinto
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Primary religion pre Buddhism
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Kofun
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- Period following the Yayoi Period in Japan
- Means “Old Tomb”
- Known for their keyhole shaped tombs & earthen ware figures
12
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Great Wall of China
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Qinshi Haungdi built this along the northern borders of china defending his land against the fierce nomadic people of the north.
13
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Silla Crown
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- Crown found in tomb, cut from sheet & embossed gold, held together with wire and rivets
- Uprights are trees or antlers symbolizing life & supernatural power.
14
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Indus Valley
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- Where earliest signs of life were found in Asia.
- Late Neolithic urban development of northern india & Pakistan
15
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Tale of Genji
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- Written by lady Murasak: (a lady in waiting at the court)
- Recounts the lives & loves of prince Genji & his descendants.
- Provides viewers with a view of what the Heian court was like
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16-1
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- “Funeral Banner, from tomb I”
- Tomb of the marguise of Dai
- Mawangdui, China
- Han Dynasty
- Painted Silk
- Coffin covers;
- top = heavenly realm.
- Middle = purgatory.
- Bottom = underworld;
- Raven = day,
- Moon = night.
- Deceased waits for their ascent into heaven.
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16-5
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- “Bi-Disk with Dragons”
- Luoyang, China
- Zhou Dynasty
- Nephrite
- found in tombs; symbolized the circle of heaven; status symbol of the owner in life & in death; high monetary value;
- dragons = imperial family & good fortune (flew between heaven & hell)
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16-6
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- “Army of the 1st emperor of Qin”
- Lintong, China
- Qin Dynasty
- Painted terra cotta
- 6000 soldiers & horses in the pits next to burial mounds, guarding the emperor; mostly individuals.
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16-23
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- “On a mountain Path in Spring”
- Song Period, China
- Album leaf, ink & colors on silk
- Painted by Ma Yuan; reduced the landscape to a few elements & confined them to one part of the page; figure gazes into the infinite distance
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16-26
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- “Silla Crown”
- Gyeongju, Korea
- Three Kingdom Period
- Gold & Jade
- Cut from sheets of embossed gold held together with wire & rivets; “trees” & “Antlers” symbolize life & supernatural power
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17-2
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- “Vessel”
- Nagano Prefecture, Japan
- Jomon Period
- Earthen ware
- Clay Coils; abstract form; natural flay, never painted; used for cooking, storage, ceremonial, burial
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17- 4
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- “Tomb of Emperor Nintoku”
- Japan
- Kofun Period
- Keyhole shaped tumulus; 3 surrounding moats; thousands of clay Haniwa stood on the center mound.
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17 - 5
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- “Haniwa Warrior”
- Japan
- Kofun Period
- Low-fired clay; unglazed
- “Clay circles” roundness in figures; whimsical (spiritual gods) protectors of the deceased in the tomb; not always human, can be animal, abstract, male female.
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17-6
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- “Main Hall of the Ise Jingu”
- Japan
- Kofun Period
- Shinto Shrine that honors the sun goddess; put together like linkin logs’ simple contruction always outsides in nature; the Kami (spirits) reside in the shrines
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17-14
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- “Gengi visits Murasaki”
- Minion chapter of “Tales of Genji”
- Heian Period; Japan
- Handscroll; ink & color on paper
- shown from an Ariel view; genji visiting his lover on her death bed; teaches the woman of the court how to read through tales of emotion
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15-6
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- “Lion capital of column erected by Ashoka at Sarnath, India”
- Set up by King Ashoka
- Sarnath, India
- Polished Sandstone
- Symbolize Buddhism; open mouths= spreading the word of Buddha; “the wheel of Buddist law”; the 4 lions back-to-back = the 4 cardinal directions.
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15-7
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- “Great Stupa” & “Elephants & yakshi”
- Sanchi, India
- Sandstone
- Signifies the presence of Buddhism in the area; a house of worship for all; filled w/reliquaries, images & sculptures of Buddha
- Yakshi: Very erotic, sensuous female that symbolizes the fertility of people, animals & the earth. High relief, shows fluid movement.
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15-8
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- “Diagram of the Great Stupa”
- Sanchi, India
- 3d Mandalas (Sacred diagrams of the universe)
- Dome represents the world mountain with yasti on top marking the axis of the universe; “toronas”
- (gateways) mark the cardinal points.
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15-27
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- “Shiva as Nataraja” (dancing Shiva)
- Tamil Nadu, India
- Bronze
- Shiva dominating ignorance; the dwarf he stands on = ignorance; dances in a ring of fire; although large, portable; treated like as a living being (walked, bathed & clothes).
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10-2
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- Aerial view of dome of the rock, Jerusalem
- Abd al-Malik built the dome of the Rock to mark the triumph of Islam in Jerusalem on the sacred sight.
- Form of octagon with towering dome
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10-7
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- “Malwiya Minaret”
- Great Mosque
- Samarra, Iraq
- Announce the Presence of Islam in the Tigris Valley
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10-8
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- “Mausoleum of the Samanids”
- Bukhara, Uzbekistan
- One of the oldest monumental tombs of the early Islamic period.
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10-16
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- “Sulay man, ewar in the form of a bird”
- Saint Petersburg, Hermitage
- Brass with silver and copper inlay
- Signed and dated by its maker
- Combinations natural feathers with abstract motif and Arabic calligraphy
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10-17
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- “Koran Page beginning of surah 18”
- Dunlin, Chester Beatty Library and oriental art gallery.
- Inked in gold on vellum
- Does not include depictions of humans or animals.
